Ski WeekEnd Packing List

We’ve been hiking, Xcountry skiing, and snowshoeing a long time, all over the Northeast and Midwest US, and Europe and Scandinavia. Our winter sports bin is pretty complete: even though we hadn’t opened it for several years and several international and cross-country moves (due to all those moves plus TBG’s surgery marathon), we prepped for last weekend’s hiking, skiing, snowshoeing trip pretty quickly.

However, things have changed and we need to add a few items to our winter weekend packing list:

• studded snow tires for your feet: STABILicers Lite, $24.99 pair. These rubber thong booties slip on over your shoes or boots – they stretch, so even over your UGGS – and make walking on slippery ice safe and easy

• gluhwein bags to spice up our hot wine for the all-important après ski. My Berlin bff The Antiques Diva doesn’t ski, but she is an après ski connoisseur. Hot spiced wine is a must
• paper soap: Tampa bff T gifted Moi with two of these nifty little palm-sized packaged sheets of soap, perfect for your carry-on luggage: not liquid, weighs nothing. T bought mine at Pier 1, in lovely scents peppermint and pink grapefruit

• a pedometer. We know how long it takes us to raquette (snowshoe) up the mountain, but we don’t know how far we’ve gone. We want bragging rights!
• flask for taking away the chills as we hike: we have several, but they’re all stored with the fall football tailgating gear
• TBG’s heart monitor, so he knows what’s going on

Moi tip: keep a pair of the STABILicers rubber boot studs in your back seat all winter long so you can safely walk thru icy parking lots and slippery sidewalks. Sorry…I don’t think they’ll work with stilettos!